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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
I love how so many of the content providers in life violate the Bill of Rights by assuming a priori that their customers--i.e. the reason they have profits--are criminals.
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I always want to respond to those folks "You assume the buying public is all a bunch of dirty so-and-sos who will rip you off if they get a chance. Why?" Because it's what
you would do, and you assume everyone else is just like you?"
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Indeed, there is a large temptation to "Share" things that should not be shared without it benefitting the creator, but honest people will not do this. Not to harp on a paradigm, but see how iTunes exploded, especially after the Napster imbroglio. People are willing to pay for content. They also like sharing new things, and that is what the content providers must understand.
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Ultimately, you trust that there are enough people who will pay for content that you make out. You'll lose some to sharing, but there's no way to judge how much.
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As Lawrence Lessig wrote in _The Future of Ideas_ the contention rests in the notion of perfect control. There was never perfect control in copyright or intellectual property, and I hope that never is.
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I don't think there
can be.
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Dennis